Chicago: Kurz & Allison, 1890. Color lithograph. Image size: 18½ x 25 inches; sheet size: 22 x 28¼ inches. Matted to an overall size of 25 x 31 inches. Some moderate chipping and edge tears, not affecting image. Reinforced with older tape along top edge. Lightly toned, though colors are.....
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Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. 94pp. including 5pp. of publisher's advertisements, plus engraved frontispiece and titlepage after George Cruikshank. Dbd. 12mo. Small bookseller's stamp in lower margin of engraved titlepage. Foxed, else very good. First American edition of the first part of the brilliant legal satire by Gilbert Abbott à .....
Madrid. 1912. vii,466pp. plus errata page. Quarto. Modern half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Corners rubbed. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Ownership signature on titlepage. Internally bright and clean. Very good. Compilation of writings regarding Florida and Louisiana edited by Inigo Abad y Lasierra, Benedictine monk and.....
London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. xxi,427,[1]pp. Colored frontispiece plus thirty-two fine collotype plates. Large quarto. Original buckram, t.e.g. Very good. In worn dust jacket. Number 80 from an edition limited to 400 copies. The most comprehensive work in its field, carefully describing over 600 books, panoramas, periodicals.....
Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1812. vi,275pp. Contemporary calf. Boards detached, corners heavily worn. Lightly tanned. Good. A collection of sermons targeted specifically at sailors, including such topics as "The Guilt of Profane Cursing and Swearing," and "Fleshly Lusts Defined and Shown to Be Inexcusable."
Boston: S. Rowland Hart, Printer, 1835. 132pp. plus seven engraved plates. Original cloth-backed boards, paper label on front cover. Corners worn, some old dampstaining on front board. Scattered foxing. Overall very good, in original state. A presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "East Cambridge /.....
Albany. 1709. [1]p. Folio. Old fold lines, light soiling and wear. Good. Manuscript document detailing the expenses associated with the repair of the old blockhouse in Albany, signed by Albany official Johannes Abeel. Abeel (1667-1711) was an Albany native and merchant who held various local offices, including mayor of Albany.....
Washington. 1848. 132pp. plus twenty-four lithographed plates and folding map. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light foxing. Closed tear in left margin of map (just intruding into image) neatly repaired on verso. Very good. One of the great southwestern government- sponsored explorations, here in its earliest form.....
Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Gathered signatures. Stitched as issued. Untrimmed. Last leaf tanned. Otherwise a very good copy. Fourth edition. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777). "...if the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the ideot only.....
Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Dbd. Titlepage a tad dusty, else very good. First edition. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777): "...If the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the idiot only to suppose that we can preserve.....
Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Dbd. Titlepage a tad dusty. Else very good. Second edition, after the first of the same year. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777). "...if the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the ideot.....
Copenhagen. 1815. xxxvi,[2],126pp. Extra engraved titlepage plus engraved frontispiece. Later old plain boards. Clean, very good copy. Contains a eulogy for Captain Verner Hans Fredrik Abrahamson (1744-1812) and his son, Ludvig August Abrahamson. The latter spent the years 1783-1810 in the United States. Includes brief biographies of the two men.....
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1775. [12],464pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Half title. Quarto. Contemporary half green calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands. Boards rubbed and shelfworn, spine sunned. Offsetting from map to half title, occasional pencil annotations, but quite bright and clean.....
Austin: The Encino Press, 1968. ix,56pp. Original pictorial boards. Fine. Edited and with an introduction by Wilson M. Hudson. From an edition limited to 750 copies. Signed by the editor on front fly leaf. The first publication of this early work, predating Adams' first book.
Boston. 1905. 371pp. Frontis. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. Pictorial gilt-stamped cloth. Near fine.
Westminster: Constable, 1905. 371pp. Frontis. Gilt pictorial cloth. Spine darkened. Very good. First edition, British issue, comprised of American sheets in a British binding. An uncommon variant of an early title.
Boston. 1907. 384pp. Portrait. Original pictorial cloth. Vertical crease through front cover, not too bad. Else clean and very good.
Boston. 1904. 355pp. plus illus. Frontis. Original pictorial cloth. Some wear to extremities, fore-edge of some leaves rather ragged due to careless opening, else very good. Fictional reminiscences of a cowman in Texas and the Southwest.
Cambridge, Ma. 1905. 46pp. Original printed wrappers, slightly frayed at edge of front wrapper, else fine. Presentation copy to Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton,this essay is a critical review of Rhodes' history covering the Civil War between the months of December, 1864 and August, 1866, and was reprinted from The.....
Boston. 1814. viii,31pp. Dbd. Some light foxing and tanning. Overall very good. This pamphlet relates to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams' A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799), which Jedediah Morse had anticipated by producing his own school history. Adams, whose eyesight was failing, felt.....
Boston. 1814. viii,31; 4; 42pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Lacks wrappers. Leaves a bit tanned. Pinhole to lower margin barely affecting a few letters. Else very good. An interesting set of tracts relating to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams's A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799).....
Washington. 1896. pp.17-23. Modern half cloth and marbled boards, leather label, original printed wrappers bound in. Near fine. Scarce separate printing of one of Adams' most famous essays, written while president of the American Historical Association. His search for a "science of history" is much in evidence here, more so.....
Washington. 1824. 11pp. Dbd. Foxing, else good. Uncut and untrimmed. As per a resolution by the House of Representatives, light houses were to be built on and around the Florida coast to ensure the safety of American merchants and vessels. To that end Secretary of State John Quincy Adams was.....
Washington. 1826. 26pp. Dbd. Very good. A basic source for early American claims regarding the disputed boundaries between the U.S. and Great Britain in the Oregon territory. Scarce, with only a dozen copies in OCLC.
Washington: Printed by Davis and Force, 1822. 256,3pp. Original tan and blue paper boards, printed paper label, expertly rebacked retaining most of the original paper backstrip. Label a bit chipped, corners bumped, early manuscript title on front board. Contemporary presentation inscription on front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepage.....
